Political Science

Green issues appear to mobilize GOP when it's out of officeCredit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.--Erik Johnson has what looks like a surefire way to hurt support for spending to protect the environment: Elect a Democratic…

National survey also looks at opinions on key issues, possible 2020 presidential candidates, trust in government LOWELL, Mass. - President Donald Trump, his Twitter habit and Twitter in general are not popular with millennials, according…

Credit: Cover image courtesy Dartmouth College Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Our images of mushroom clouds came from its cameras. So did many shots of missile tests, space missions and the Korean and Vietnam wars. At one point it was the…

It is one of the conclusions of a study by Tània Verge and Javier Astudillo, teachers of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the UPF, and published in the European Journal of Political Research Although male…

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Fear and anger related to the 2016 presidential election and climate change, one of the campaign's major issues, had different effects on the way conservatives and liberals processed information about the two topics,…

Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook Although most Facebook users did not share any fake news articles during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a new study reveals that the small number…

A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called "fake news" sites on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election campaign, but this behavior was disproportionately common among people over the age of 65,…

The American Statistical Association Board of Directors announces its endorsement of Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Tabulation Audits. The December 2018 document--which updates a 2008 document with the latest statistical…

Bright Line Watch experiment tests for partisanship and American public's commitment to democratic idealsCredit: Bright Line Watch and Michael Osadciw, University of Rochester Imagine you are a fairly mainstream Republican voter and are…

As scientific funding becomes increasingly scarce, professors in STEM fields spend more time in their offices writing grant applications: by one estimate, as much as one-fifth of their research time. That takes time and energy away from…